SURE - AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF

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Invest in firms reducing their equity float through buyback programs and insider buying

Symbol Exchange Inception Date CUSIP NAV Options Available
SURE NYSE Arca 10/4/2011 00768Y818 SURE.NV Yes
About the ETF

Following a core investment philosophy that corporate insiders know their companies the best, the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF (SURE) seeks to invest in the equities of companies actively trying to reduce their public equity float through well-executed stock buyback programs and corporate insider buying. Not only do buybacks and insider buying demonstrate that executives may see relative value in the firm’s stock, they also could create favorable shareholder market conditions through the reduction of publicly available shares (float shrink). SURE selects holdings using an active, quantitative, multi-factor model to identify companies shrinking float, lowering leverage, growing free cash flow, and providing dividends. SURE’s holdings are equal-weighted and reconstituted/rebalanced monthly.

What Is Float Shrink?

Public equity float refers to the portion of a company’s outstanding shares that is in the hands of public investors – as opposed to company officers, directors, or stockholders that hold controlling interests – and are available for trading in the open market. The float is calculated by subtracting restricted shares from outstanding shares. Float shrink occurs when there is a reduction of publicly available shares.

Buybacks – action taken by a corporation to repurchase its own shares from the marketplace – are the most common cause of float shrink today and one of two ways a company can distribute profits to shareholders. Dividend payments are the second form. While firms may implement both, since 1997, share buybacks have surpassed cash dividends to become the dominant form of corporate payout in the U.S. Not only do buybacks avoid a stock price penalty if a firm cuts or ends a program, like dividends are subject to, but also provide a positive market impact by improving earnings and cash flow per share.

Insider buying – the purchase of shares in a corporation by a board member, officer, or executive within that company (i.e., corporate insider) – is another way that float shrink occurs. It may be a strong indicator that insiders are becoming more optimistic about the company’s future. Buying by corporate insiders is legal, highly regulated, publicly disclosed, and different from “insider trading” – the illegal act of buying or selling stock by someone who has privileged, non-public information about a company.

 

Why Invest?
  • Investing with Corporate Insiders – Top firm executives know more about the company’s fundamentals than the investing public. These insiders can influence their company’s share price by timing equity issuance and repurchase to the firm’s advantage. A well-implemented buyback program reduces publicly available shares and can increase the stock’s price. Additionally, corporate insider buying can be a bullish signal that the stock is underpriced by the market.
  • Conscientious Float Shrink – Investing solely in stock buybacks can be problematic. SURE employs a comprehensive, multi-factor strategy to assess if a firm is reducing their float in a well-planned manner, analyzing free cash flow, profitability, leverage reduction, dividend yield, net buybacks and insider buying.
  • Disciplined Growth – A quantitative, actively managed, equal weight investment strategy focused on long-term growth.

 

Key Attributes
  • Float Shrink – Corporate insiders have better information than the investing public and know their companies the best. Stock buyback programs and insider buying not only show that corporate insiders see relative value in investing in their own equity securities, but also create favorable market conditions for shareholders by reducing the number of publicly traded shares and improving earnings and cash flow per share.
  • Extensive Stock Screening – SURE’s portfolio manager screens approximately 3,000 companies and looks for the following characteristics when selecting stocks: shareholder-friendliness (measured by float shrink and dividend yield), profitability (measured by free cash flow), solid balance sheet (measured by outstanding leverage).
  • Equal Weight Investing – In a market-cap weighted portfolio, a small number of the largest companies receive the heaviest allocations and overvalued components are overweighted relative to undervalued components. By contrast, with an equal weight strategy, the bias to the largest companies is removed; a buy low, sell high discipline is regularly followed with periodic rebalancing; and reallocation to undervalued stocks may provide the opportunity to capture long-term equity performance.
  • Actively Managed ETF Structure – SURE is different from other buyback-focused investments that follow passive, market-cap weighted indexes and only reconstitute annually. SURE re-evaluates its investable universe and existing holdings monthly – adding or removing stocks and returning each security to an equal-weight allocation – allowing SURE to react more quickly to changes in buyback programs, acquisition announcements, etc. An ETF structure allows for better tax efficiency than mutual funds or than investing in the underlying stocks directly.
Where Can SURE Fit in a Traditional Portfolio?

SURE can serve as a thematic investment or a complement to a dividend investing or market-cap weighted core strategy.

About the Portfolio Strategist

Minyi Chen, Portfolio Strategist

Minyi Chen, CFA is the founder and CEO of Qubed Capital, a registered investment advisor founded in 2015 and based in Oakland, California. For over a decade, Mr. Chen has been providing quantitative financial research and analysis along with proprietary investment models to both retail and institutional investors. In the past, Mr. Chen has served as a portfolio manager of the AdvisorShares TrimTabs Float Shrink ETF (ticker: TTFS) and the TrimTabs International Free-Cash-Flow ETF (ticker: FCFI).

 

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Fund

Price History

Fund Data

11/28/2025
NAV $125.42
Change $0.33
Shares Outstanding 380,000
Assets Under Management $47,659,210.70

 

 

 

 

Market Data

11/28/2025
Closing Price $125.36
Close Change $0.12
Volume 25

Regulatory Data

11/28/2025
Premium Discount $-0.05
30-Day Median bid-ask Spread 0.345651
Premium/Discount Historical Data | NAV Historical Data | Daily Premium/Discount Historical Data

Shares are bought and sold at market price (closing price) not NAV and are not individually redeemed from the Fund. Market price returns are based on the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00 pm Eastern Time (when NAV is normally determined), and do not represent the return you would receive if you traded at other times.

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Characteristics

As of 10/31/2025

Source: Morningstar & AdvisorShares

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Performance

As of 10/31/2025

 

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 3000 Index
1 Month -1.06 -0.79 2.14
3 Months 4.29 4.42 8.11
YTD 5.46 5.44 16.85
1 Year 5.05 5.10 20.81
3 Years 12.87 12.86 21.76
5 Years 13.87 13.86 16.74
10 Years 9.22 9.22 14.08
Since Inception (10/04/2011, Annualized) 12.61 12.61 15.41

As of 9/30/2025

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 3000 Index
1 Month 0.92 0.64 3.45
3 Months 5.75 5.35 8.18
YTD 6.59 6.29 14.40
1 Year 4.96 4.73 17.41
3 Years 18.11 18.00 24.12
5 Years 13.64 13.60 15.74
10 Years 10.12 10.10 14.71
Since Inception (10/04/2011, Annualized) 12.77 12.75 15.34

As of 10/31/2025

  NAV Market Price Return Russell 3000 Index
1 Month -1.06 -0.79 2.14
3 Months 4.29 4.42 8.11
YTD 5.46 5.44 16.85
1 Year 5.05 5.10 20.81
3 Year 12.87 12.86 21.76
Since 9/1/2022, Annualized 12.75 12.85 19.79

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. All Fund data and performance data quoted is believed to be accurate, and unless otherwise stated, is sourced from the Fund administrator, the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s proprietary data, and Morningstar. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized.

*On September 1, 2022, the AdvisorShares DoubleLine Value Equity ETF (the “Predecessor Fund”) was renamed the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF. The Predecessor Fund had different portfolio managers and investment strategy than the AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF. Performance prior to September 1, 2022 reflects the Fund’s performance prior to the change in manager and investment strategy and may not be indicative of the Fund’s performance under the new manager and revised investment strategy. Performance since September 1, 2022 reflects actual  AdvisorShares Insider Advantage ETF performance.

Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. All Fund data and performance data quoted is believed to be accurate, and unless otherwise stated, is sourced from the Fund administrator, the Advisor’s or Sub-Advisor’s proprietary data, and Morningstar. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor’s shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized. One cannot invest directly in an index. The Russell 1000 Index represents the top 1000 companies by market capitalization in the United States. The index is a subset of the Russell 3000 Index. The Russell 3000 Index is broad market, capitalization-weighted index comprised of the largest 3,000 U.S. companies and represents 98% of the investable U.S. equity market. 

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Holdings

As of

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Date Account Symbol Stock Ticker Security ID Security Description Shares Share Price Market Value Portfolio Weight Asset Group
11/28/2025 SURE LRCX 512807306 LAM RESEARCH CORP 3,663 156.00 571,428.00 1.20% S
GOOG 02079K107 ALPHABET INC-CL C 1,736 320.12 555,728.32 1.17% S
CMG 169656105 CHIPOTLE MEXICAN GRILL INC 15,000 34.52 517,800.00 1.09% S
ELV 036752103 ELEVANCE HEALTH INC 1,500 338.26 507,390.00 1.06% S
PHM 745867101 PULTEGROUP INC 3,972 127.19 505,198.68 1.06% S
DPZ 25754A201 DOMINO'S PIZZA INC 1,200 419.63 503,556.00 1.06% S
AMAT 038222105 APPLIED MATERIALS INC 1,992 252.25 502,482.00 1.05% S
MCK 58155Q103 MCKESSON CORP 570 881.12 502,238.40 1.05% S
HLT 43300A203 HILTON WORLDWIDE HOLDINGS IN 1,758 285.03 501,082.74 1.05% S
SPGI 78409V104 S&P GLOBAL INC 1,000 498.83 498,830.00 1.05% S
DHI 23331A109 DR HORTON INC 3,136 159.01 498,655.36 1.05% S
ORLY 67103H107 O'REILLY AUTOMOTIVE INC 4,900 101.70 498,330.00 1.05% S
DXCM 252131107 DEXCOM INC 7,800 63.47 495,066.00 1.04% S
KEYS 49338L103 KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES IN 2,500 197.95 494,875.00 1.04% S
TKO 87256C101 TKO GROUP HOLDINGS INC 2,550 193.89 494,419.50 1.04% S
ON 682189105 ON SEMICONDUCTOR 9,800 50.24 492,352.00 1.03% S
AAPL 037833100 APPLE INC 1,763 278.85 491,612.55 1.03% S
MCO 615369105 MOODY'S CORP 1,000 490.78 490,780.00 1.03% S
CSW 126402106 CSW INDUSTRIALS INC 1,800 271.87 489,366.00 1.03% S
KLAC 482480100 KLA CORP 416 1,175.47 488,995.52 1.03% S
DVN 25179M103 DEVON ENERGY CORP 13,181 37.06 488,487.86 1.02% S
JBHT 445658107 HUNT (JB) TRANSPRT SVCS INC 2,806 173.96 488,131.76 1.02% S
DHR 235851102 DANAHER CORP 2,150 226.78 487,577.00 1.02% S
EBS 29089Q105 EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS INC 43,600 11.17 487,012.00 1.02% S
CAT 149123101 CATERPILLAR INC 841 575.76 484,214.16 1.02% S
MSFT 594918104 MICROSOFT CORP 984 492.01 484,137.84 1.02% S
GRND 39854F101 GRINDR INC 37,700 12.83 483,691.00 1.01% S
MPWR 609839105 MONOLITHIC POWER SYSTEMS INC 520 928.17 482,648.40 1.01% S
BAC 060505104 BANK OF AMERICA CORP 8,996 53.65 482,635.40 1.01% S
CTS 126501105 CTS CORP 11,400 42.33 482,562.00 1.01% S
VLO 91913Y100 VALERO ENERGY CORP 2,730 176.76 482,554.80 1.01% S
TTEK 88162G103 TETRA TECH INC 13,856 34.74 481,357.44 1.01% S
TPR 876030107 TAPESTRY INC 4,400 109.28 480,832.00 1.01% S
MCD 580135101 MCDONALD'S CORP 1,540 311.82 480,202.80 1.01% S
XOM 30231G102 EXXON MOBIL CORP 4,138 115.92 479,676.96 1.01% S
PDFS 693282105 PDF SOLUTIONS INC 17,700 27.10 479,670.00 1.01% S
COP 20825C104 CONOCOPHILLIPS 5,405 88.69 479,369.45 1.01% S
HNI 404251100 HNI CORP 11,540 41.52 479,140.80 1.01% S
WFC 949746101 WELLS FARGO & CO 5,581 85.85 479,128.85 1.01% S
PH 701094104 PARKER HANNIFIN CORP 556 861.70 479,105.20 1.01% S
HCA 40412C101 HCA HEALTHCARE INC 942 508.29 478,809.18 1.00% S
FTI G87110105 TECHNIPFMC PLC 10,551 45.26 477,538.26 1.00% FS
ECPG 292554102 ENCORE CAPITAL GROUP INC 9,200 51.89 477,388.00 1.00% S
STZ 21036P108 CONSTELLATION BRANDS INC-A 3,500 136.38 477,330.00 1.00% S
VNT 928881101 VONTIER CORP 13,155 36.28 477,263.40 1.00% S
CSL 142339100 CARLISLE COS INC 1,500 318.07 477,105.00 1.00% S
AIN 012348108 ALBANY INTL CORP-CL A 10,000 47.68 476,800.00 1.00% S
SYF 87165B103 SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL 6,160 77.36 476,537.60 1.00% S
MTCH 57667L107 MATCH GROUP INC 14,300 33.31 476,333.00 1.00% S
VRSK 92345Y106 VERISK ANALYTICS INC 2,115 225.07 476,023.05 1.00% S
UHS 913903100 UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES-B 1,950 243.63 475,078.50 1.00% S
SEIC 784117103 SEI INVESTMENTS COMPANY 5,871 80.86 474,729.06 1.00% S
TXT 883203101 TEXTRON INC 5,700 83.16 474,012.00 0.99% S
EXPE 30212P303 EXPEDIA GROUP INC 1,850 255.69 473,026.50 0.99% S
NTRS 665859104 NORTHERN TRUST CORP 3,600 131.34 472,824.00 0.99% S
MAR 571903202 MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL -CL A 1,550 304.79 472,424.50 0.99% S
GNTX 371901109 GENTEX CORP 20,686 22.83 472,261.38 0.99% S
AOS 831865209 SMITH (A.O.) CORP 7,138 65.98 470,965.24 0.99% S
POOL 73278L105 POOL CORP 1,933 243.60 470,878.80 0.99% S
HON 438516106 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC 2,450 192.19 470,865.50 0.99% S
ADSK 052769106 AUTODESK INC 1,550 303.34 470,177.00 0.99% S
OPCH 68404L201 OPTION CARE HEALTH INC 15,100 31.10 469,610.00 0.99% S
HRMY 413197104 HARMONY BIOSCIENCES HOLDINGS 13,300 35.29 469,357.00 0.98% S
LZ 52466B103 LEGALZOOMCOM INC 50,300 9.33 469,299.00 0.98% S
WH 98311A105 WYNDHAM HOTELS & RESORTS INC 6,406 73.20 468,919.20 0.98% S
QCOM 747525103 QUALCOMM INC 2,789 168.09 468,803.01 0.98% S
REGN 75886F107 REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS 600 780.19 468,114.00 0.98% S
MA 57636Q104 MASTERCARD INC - A 850 550.53 467,950.50 0.98% S
URI 911363109 UNITED RENTALS INC 574 815.18 467,913.32 0.98% S
CDNS 127387108 CADENCE DESIGN SYS INC 1,500 311.84 467,760.00 0.98% S
DOX G02602103 AMDOCS LTD 6,116 76.48 467,751.68 0.98% FS
PRG 74319R101 PROG HOLDINGS INC 16,251 28.78 467,703.78 0.98% S
ALSN 01973R101 ALLISON TRANSMISSION HOLDING 5,275 88.66 467,681.50 0.98% S
KFRC 493732101 KFORCE INC 15,900 29.40 467,460.00 0.98% S
DVA 23918K108 DAVITA INC 3,900 119.68 466,752.00 0.98% S
MTG 552848103 MGIC INVESTMENT CORP 16,456 28.35 466,527.60 0.98% S
JPM 46625H100 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 1,490 313.08 466,489.20 0.98% S
FCNCA 31946M103 FIRST CITIZENS BCSHS -CL A 248 1,877.89 465,716.72 0.98% S
HIG 416515104 HARTFORD INSURANCE GROUP INC 3,397 137.03 465,490.91 0.98% S
CTAS 172908105 CINTAS CORP 2,500 186.02 465,050.00 0.98% S
IRDM 46269C102 IRIDIUM COMMUNICATIONS INC 28,296 16.40 464,054.40 0.97% S
MUSA 626755102 MURPHY USA INC 1,201 385.07 462,469.07 0.97% S
BKNG 09857L108 BOOKING HOLDINGS INC 94 4,914.69 461,980.86 0.97% S
CRM 79466L302 SALESFORCE INC 2,000 230.54 461,080.00 0.97% S
MCRI 609027107 MONARCH CASINO & RESORT INC 4,768 96.58 460,493.44 0.97% S
YUM 988498101 YUM! BRANDS INC 3,004 153.21 460,242.84 0.97% S
NVDA 67066G104 NVIDIA CORP 2,598 177.00 459,846.00 0.96% S
ESNT G3198U102 ESSENT GROUP LTD 7,316 62.76 459,152.16 0.96% FS
LMT 539830109 LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP 1,000 457.86 457,860.00 0.96% S
CHDN 171484108 CHURCHILL DOWNS INC 4,180 109.09 455,996.20 0.96% S
ODFL 679580100 OLD DOMINION FREIGHT LINE 3,368 135.29 455,656.72 0.96% S
BR 11133T103 BROADRIDGE FINANCIAL SOLUTIO 1,972 228.09 449,793.48 0.94% S
ADBE 00724F101 ADOBE INC 1,400 320.13 448,182.00 0.94% S
RNR G7496G103 RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD 1,709 261.17 446,339.53 0.94% FS
ITW 452308109 ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS 1,781 249.28 443,967.68 0.93% S
CLX 189054109 CLOROX COMPANY 4,100 107.94 442,554.00 0.93% S
TTC 891092108 TORO CO 6,318 69.74 440,617.32 0.92% S
BYD 103304101 BOYD GAMING CORP 5,281 83.30 439,907.30 0.92% S
MSCI 55354G100 MSCI INC 780 563.72 439,701.60 0.92% S
NAGE 171077407 NIAGEN BIOSCIENCE INC 63,500 6.77 429,895.00 0.90% S
CASH 27,022.05 100.00 27,022.05 0.06% CA
Holdings and allocations are subject to risks and to change. 

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Fees & Expenses

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Management Fee   0.70%
Other Expenses   0.30%
Gross Expense Ratio   1.00%
Fee Waiver/Expense Reimbursement*   -0.10%
Net Expense Ratio   0.90%

 

Expense Cap Limitation*   0.90%

*The Advisor has contractually agreed to keep net expenses from exceeding 0.90% of the Fund’s average daily net assets for at least one year from the date of the prospectus. For more information, please read the full prospectus.

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Fund Distributions

  • Before investing you should carefully consider the Fund’s investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other information is in the prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained by visiting the Fund’s website at www.AdvisorShares.com. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest. Foreside Fund Services, LLC, Distributor. 
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  • The Fund’s investment focus follows a core philosophy that corporate insiders know their companies best.  The Advisor believes that insider buying and stock buyback programs not only show that corporate insiders see relative value in investing in their own company’s equity securities, but also create favorable market conditions by reducing public equity float (i.e., the share supply available to investors on the public secondary market).  The Advisor allocates the Fund’s portfolio using research from a disciplined and quantitative proprietary model, the U.S. Insiders Edge Model, developed by Qubed Capital, LLC. In utilizing the model, the Advisor seeks to remove emotion from day-to-day decision-making by following a systematic process.
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  • The Fund is an actively-managed exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) that seeks to achieve its investment objective by primarily investing in a portfolio of U.S. traded companies selected from a universe of the largest 3,000 U.S. equity securities based on market capitalization. When models and data prove to be incorrect or incomplete, any decisions made in reliance thereon expose the Fund to potential risks. In addition, the use of predictive models has inherent risk.
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  • Definitions   
    A buyback occurs when a company repurchases its own shares from the marketplace, reducing the number of shares outstanding.
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  • Equity float is the portion of a company’s outstanding shares that is in the hands of public investors, as opposed to company officers, directors, or stockholders that hold controlling interests that have trading restrictions.
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  • Float shrink is a reduction in the number of a company’s shares available for trading.
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  • Free cash flow represents the cash a company generates after accounting for cash outflows to support operations and maintain its capital assets. It is a measure of profitability and represents the cash available for the company to repay creditors and pay out dividends and interest to investors.
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  • An insider is an officer, director, executive, entity, or individual that owns more than 10% of a publicly traded company’s shares.
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  • Insider buying is the legal purchase of shares in a firm by a corporate insider that is not based on non-public, material information and follows the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and reporting requirements. 
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  • Insider trading is the illegal trading a publicly traded company’s security by anyone who has non-public, material information about that security before the information becomes public.